>>George and others,
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>>LOCATE is faster than GO TOP when a filter is invloved because LOCATE is optimizable and GO TOP is not.
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>Thanks Jim (and Fred too). Filters?? Who uses filters any more?< bg >.
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>This does bring up a question, however. How can a LOCATE without an expression be optimizable? If there's no expression to optimize...

George,

A blind LOCATE is the same as LOCATE FOR .T.. The Filter is optimized, as is the deleted condition if the indexes exist.